From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,700e3c547aedfa54 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-03-22 07:45:04 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!207.115.63.138!newscon04.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!postmaster.news.prodigy.com!newssvr30.news.prodigy.com.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Pat Rogers" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada References: Subject: Re: Waay OT - America (was: Ada?) X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: 208.191.177.131 X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net X-Trace: newssvr30.news.prodigy.com 1016811870 ST000 208.191.177.131 (Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:44:30 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 10:44:30 EST Organization: Prodigy Internet http://www.prodigy.com X-UserInfo1: FKPO@MONFJVMQVPXJZDBNFXBBZ\LPCXLLBWLOOAFEQR@ETUCCNSKQFCY@TXDX_WHSVB]ZEJLSNY\^J[CUVSA_QLFC^RQHUPH[P[NRWCCMLSNPOD_ESALHUK@TDFUZHBLJ\XGKL^NXA\EVHSP[D_C^B_^JCX^W]CHBAX]POG@SSAZQ\LE[DCNMUPG_VSC@VJM Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 15:44:30 GMT Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:21542 Date: 2002-03-22T15:44:30+00:00 List-Id: "Christoph Grein" wrote in message news:mailman.1016779803.31526.comp.lang.ada@ada.eu.org... > From: dennison@telepath.com > > Adrian Hoe wrote in message > news:<3C97EF08.1AFB3D05@greenlime.com>... > > > Germans, Malaysians!, Chinese and Vietnamese and even CLA. I like > > > America but I personally disagree her politically. (I am not a > > > politician, ok? This is just my personal point of view :) > > > > Well, realise that this doesn't make a whole lot of sense. "America" > > isn't an entity that has one single coherent political view with which > > one can decide to disagree. There are about 300 million different > > politicial views in this country. Many of them are bound to fall on > > either side of yours. > > > > I noticed the other day that a poll was run in various middle eastern > > countries asking their views of America. > > America, America ... not all of America is the USA. There are about 30 other > countries on this continent! > > US citizens tend to see their country as encompassing the whole world. Even we > in Germany (or even whole of Europe?) are infected with this disease by feeling > forced to speak of US citizens as "Americans". Hang on. That's much too broad. Clearly, you must base your conclusion on the population of US citizens that you have encountered, and just as clearly, that cannot be all US citizens. For that matter, in the UK we are called "Yanks" (not that the UK is part of Europe :-). Now, I admit we Texans do have this view you describe -- not of the US, of course, but of Texas! :-)